The reality is, to shut down the economy of the “white man” altogether, and revert back to the days when the territory of what used to be known as “the United States of America” was a collection of some four or five hundred tribes of widely differing cultural and linguistic traits. From time to time, certain of these tribal units managed to create a relatively high level of civilization, such as the Mississippian culture centered in Kahokia (now in Illinois) or the Aztec empire centered in what is now Mexico City. But they always decayed back into broken and scattered tribes just barely out of the Stone Age, until white men, as explorers, landed and began making the North American continent into an extension of European culture.
The development and widespread use of coal, petroleum and later, natural gas, propelled this extension of European culture to an astonishing level of prosperity and innovation, such as the world had never seen before.
And now they want to knock us all back to the Stone Age.
This is going to involve an enormous die-back of the human beings now living on this planet, you know.
Let them freeze and starve in the dark, coughing out their last breaths in the grip of a malign series of diseases.
I wish I could say that last part was sarcasm, but that is just the vision that drives these Luddites. Equality and all that, doncha know.
And of course the wheel was not invented by any of the indigenous tribes of North America. It was first introduced by the Europeans to this continent.
This is simple history, but doing a search on this topic, you will find endless justifications on why the Indians were simply too smart to waste time on the wheel: it was not needed; it was counterproductive; they had canoes.
Anything but the simple (but apparently terrifying) truth that some cultures are superior to others both in intellect and invention.